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Atlanta Ballet and Meehan’s Public House in Sandy Springs Honor Music Legend Johnny Cash with a Special Dinner – March 15, 2012
For your listening pleasure, while you read this post! Johnny Cash is one of my all-time favorites. When I was a kid, he lived in my hometown, Port Richey, Florida, next door to my parents’ best friends, in the house that his wife, june Carter Cash, inherited from her parents on the Pithlachascotee River (we had [...]
Atkins Park Tavern in Virginia-Highland Celebrates 90 Years with a Prohibition Dinner – Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Someone once told me, you learn something new every day – today I learned that Atkins Park Tavern in Virginia-Highland is Atlanta’s oldest continuously licensed tavern. Now that is definitely something to celebrate! To commemorate turning 90 next month, Atkins Park Tavern is hosting a special Prohibition Dinner on Wednesday, February 29, 2012. Featuring dishes that [...]
The Atlanta Opera Presents “The Golden Ticket” – Fellow Willy Wonka Lovers, Won’t You Join Me?
One of my favorite books of all time is Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It’s whimsical, it’s fantastical, it was made into one of my favorite movies of all time: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, as in the original 1971 version (not the creepy and downright strange 2005 Tim Burton version). And [...]
Dine Out TONIGHT For a Great Cause at Meehan’s Public House in Vinings – Tuesday, February 21, 2012
It’s a rare opportunity that we get to do something good for someone we don’t know. Here’s your chance, Atlanta – and you can do it tonight! Today – Tuesday, February 21, 2012 – from 4:00 PM until midnight, Meehan’s Public House in Vinings is having a fundraiser for the Carmo Family. On Sunday, Jan. 29, [...]
Atlanta Native Deborah Scroggins in Town Presenting Her New Book, WANTED WOMEN – This Week!
On Sunday afternoon, I had the enormous pleasure to meet and listen to an incredible author whom I had previously only known through the pages of her book. Deborah Scroggins, the winner of Georgia Author of the Year for her book, Emma’s War, is in town for her new book, Wanted Women – Faith, Lies, [...]
Georgia Olive Oil Available Right Now (Until Bottles Run Out!) at Star Provisions
Back in December, my friend Tim Gaddis, the Cheesemonger at Star Provisions (some of you may know him as @timthecheeseman on Twitter) posted this tweet: And then this one: So I FLEW (not literally, but almost) down to Star Provisions and secured one of the only twelve bottles they had in stock. Only TWELVE bottles! [...]
Twyla Tharp’s “The Princess & The Goblin” Enchants Audiences of All Ages – Atlanta Ballet – Through February 19, 2012
Last Friday night, my friend Angela and I had a girly girls’ night – we got all dressed up and went to see Atlanta Ballet’s production of Twyla Tharp’s “The Princess & The Goblin.” And we weren’t the only ones. Girls of all ages – from tiny toddlers to their grandmothers and everyone in between [...]
Learn to Ride at the Honda Motorcycle Safety Foundation Campus in Alpharetta, Georgia
Those of you who know me would probably not classify me as a biker chick – though the outfits do have a certain bad-girl appeal to them, I’m not so much a wind-in-my-hair, take-my-life-into-my-hands daredevil. But that didn’t stop me from taking a motorcycle class at the Honda Motorcycle Safety Foundation Alpharetta Campus. It was [...]
Atlanta Jewish Film Festival Teams Up With Atlantic Station for Food Truck Friday! Friday, February 10, 2012
The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival is in full swing – today is the first official day of the regular festival, which goes until February 29, 2012. AJFF is teaming up with Atlantic Station to bring you a special Food Truck Friday, in conjunction with a screening of the documentary film, The Apple Pushers. Movie patrons [...]
Atlanta Chef Virginia Willis Teams Up with The Twin Chefs TODAY at the Children’s Museum of Atlanta – Friday, February 10, 2012
I’m a huge fan of Virginia Willis, not just because I love her cookbooks (Bon Appetit, Y’all and Basic to Brilliant, Y’all) and her French Quarter spice rub, but because the few times I’ve met her she’s been everything I think a Southern chef should be: welcoming, hospitable, kind, humble. It only makes sense that [...]
